Today started out like the rest of the week - hot and due to get hotter. We have been hitting 100 plus degrees everyday for the last two weeks. Buddy when out and started digging, with the backhoe, the trench that will hold the gray water pipe that exits the slab near the NW corner. By noon, he had dug several feet(note the flag that marks the approximate placement of a double wye clean-out[this gives you acess to the line ,if the need should arise], cleaned pipes, attached a 3x4 adapter and joined two 10' joints. Buddy poured about 2 gals. of water in what will be the kitchen sink drain and watched with delight as it ran out the end of the pipe.Then the rain came!!! Yea!! Yea!! and Yea!! in all we got about 0.3". Temperature dropped from 105 to 83 in just 10 minutes.

Around 6:00 PM we got a call from Bob (the Mueller Steel provider driver) that was on the other side of Gatesville on Hwy 84 where it intersects Hwy 116 and would be there as soon as he could. 45 minutes later, he and his 73 foot rig showed up where the driveway forks to the left and winds through the native juniper and Elderica Pines[but thats a whole 'nother story]. After a brief discussion with Buddy on how to get the steel up to our home site, the driver got back in the rig, turned into our front pasture, and backed into the area where the sand had been. Thanks to a fork lift vehicle attached to the backend of his rig, the driver had the steel off and layed out in about 30 minutes.

It is hard to believe that this stack of steel will be the framework for our new home.